Satellite hunters

Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun

Tony Garcia, Lead Station Engineer, left, and Bill Dove, Satellite Communications Facility Manager, right, discuss their work in front of the 60-ft. antenna dish at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. They were able to reestablish contact with IMAGE, a $150 million satellite that had been lost for 12 years, using this 60-ft. satellite dish.

At the Satellite Communications Facility at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, four screens show engineers the positioning of the 60-ft. satellite dish, seen by itself, lower left, and the 5m. satellite dish, pictured alone, upper right.